If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.