My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.

Be hopeful.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Spirituality for me is the sum total of all the acts of my day.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

I have been vain since birth.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.