It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.