Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.