I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

We all live in a little Village.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Music makes a quiet mind.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.

Marriage is a wonderful thing.

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.