I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.