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

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

Every day could be your last, so share your love far and wide with everyone you adore.

I don’t want to tell you how much I love you. I just want to feel it deep in my heart.

Where there's tea, there's hope.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.