There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

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.