There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.