We know what needs to be done - all that is missing is the will to do it.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.