To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I was raised to face any challenge.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.