The quality of governance is a crucial determinant of economic development.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

In the dictatorship, time stands still.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.