A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.

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.

Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now artists, like writers and sort of course have an added option of using their scale and talent with this in view. It is their business to create an environment in which our people will prosper and be happy.

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.