I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people who say: "To the hell with you, we will struggle on the way but we will do it". Therefore what I am saying is - and I do not whether it is coming through clearly - there has to be a lot of care exercised by the people who are in the position to give or withhold assistance: if they start throwing their weight around, using extreme language, seeming to order other nations to do their bidding, then there will not be a good result, it will not be done.

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.