"Lots of things in life are senseless. There’s so much we can’t explain but we need to be able to love the questions."

"In my view what he needed was psychotherapy, not prison."

"I dislike the term 'victims' because it places a weight on people."

"When I recovered myself I told him, 'I’m not crying for David, I’m crying for you. What have you done with your life?"'

"I would venture into the jaws of hell if my story could shift just one person's views and move them away from violence."

"In time I discovered that forgiveness opens a channel for real spiritual power to work in my life; a power which brings healing and wholeness."

"I said that some of the things we did during the war were terrible and we shouldn’t have done them, but that these were unique circumstances and we were not in control of our actions or of what happened next."

"As I took his hand I was sobbing – not out of despair but a sense relief that perhaps now we could move on from this terrible pain in our past."