Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.