Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusive developed Sri Lanka.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. 

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.