The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning. 

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Intuition and urge are two different things. You must learn to differentiate between the two.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Just because someone forgives your wrongs does not mean their hurt is healed forever.