I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

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

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.