Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

unearned suffering is redemptive.

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.