Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.