I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.