If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.

Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.