It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. 

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Complacence among the masses may lead to subjugation bythe leaders.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

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.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there is no use. 

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.  

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. 

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.