If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.