There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.