Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.
“From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.”