Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation

I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.

I am fundamentally an optimist.

We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.