The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting A go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.  

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Peace is its own reward.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical things to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

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.