The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.

These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.