I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

I love meeting people and helping them.