To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.

Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.

That things change.

Stress is bad for your health.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Can we afford to indulge in compassion fatigue? Is the cost of meeting the needs of refugees greater than the cost that would be consequent on turning an indifferent, if not a blind, eye on their suffering?

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world. To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart.

It takes courage to feel the truth, to feel one's conscience because once you do, you must engage your fundamental purpose for being alive. You can't just expect to sit idly by and have freedom handed to you.

It is in human nature to contain both the positive and the negative. However, it is also within human capability to work to reinforce the positive and to minimize or neutralize the negative.