People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. You just know there's something much bigger than any of us here. 

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.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

As a nation, every one of us should have to give priority to our country i.e., India. We just need to forget which religion or caste we are belonging to. Or in which society or state we are living. As an Indian, we need to put our whole efforts in the development of the country.

Let your life lightly dance on the edge of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Peace begins with a smile.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.