I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Education will open doors where none seem to exist.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?

No time for anything, little time for everything

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

The Universe is very, very big.

Life ain't the movies.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.