If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.