It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

If the constitution goes, I go.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standing at your side ready to catch you and put you back on your own two feet again.

Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.

Silent words are heard through eyes.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.

Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Paul Ryan.

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.