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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe – that all they’re interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they’re interested in learning something.

It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.