Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.