Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

We savour on great memories of happy times.

Is the prospect of magic any more outrageous than a dragon train?

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.