Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.