There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

No man however great is greater than his people

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.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

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.

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.