The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs

My rule is to save myself first.

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.