We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could...

Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance with the divine purpose. If an analogy exists between the growth...

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn when...

Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.

One week after New Year’s Day in 2006, I was on a flight to Aceh…As we walked down the steps on to the tarmac, the air felt humid and tropical, familiar and almost Balinese. It...

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar,...

A creature doesn’t move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we’ll need the wisdom of the old Einstein — humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens...

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God’s mysterious designs.

I’m starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

[With comedy and wanting to make people laugh,] when you’re a child, all you want is ANY kind of laugh. You get them to laugh, and great! – you’ve succeeded. And then it’s “How FAST...

The youth. The youth of Africa. The youth of this world. Are we harnessing the potential of the youth enough? Are the young ones… giving off their best to the continent, the nation, the universe...

It is necessary – and toward this point our development will move, little by little – that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.