After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

Our conscience is like an alarm bell.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does become tainted.