What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

A good liar must have a good memory.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Common sense is not so common.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.