Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

Be where you are

Those that yield are not always weak

The artist realizes himself in his work

Don't listen to anyone but me

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.