When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It only seems impossible until it's done.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.