Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.

In the night all cats are gray.

We do not do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.