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

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.

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

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.

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.

Because of the gospel -- the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners -- mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.

We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.