I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive position but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

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

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. IS considered the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.