One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Thank God with endless when puts you in the crisis because will tests you many examinations one of them is to identify your enemies and allies

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

My head monk asked how it was walking. I said it hurt without shoes. And he said, 'It hurts on the foot that's down, but the one that's up feels really good - so focus on that one'.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

Habit is a second nature.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.