If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Americans have discovered fear.