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.

I've always said there's no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

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

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.