People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.