It's not our weaknesses that frighten us. It's our strengths.

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

It is important to not be hostile to what a greater part of society has embraced, whether as Christians, Hindus or Muslims. It is important to respect that because whether you believe or not in the existence of a superior being, humanity does believe in that.