When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

If you are being trolled, you are sticking out your neck for some good cause.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

How beautiful our country is, even after facing many obstacles, whether it was for independence, or with caste or religion, we Indians always make a comeback and fight with each of them with a huge determination.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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.

You must consider yourself extremely fortunate if you don’t have major health or legal issues in your life.