I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.

We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.

Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them.

I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

Love could never be forever only for a lifetime, only God can love eternally.

I am lost to him. I never want to be found.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.