We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. 

Insomnia works like slow poison on our body.

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

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.