I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.