Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

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

I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.