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 brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.