Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.