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

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

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

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

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

I love doing what I do.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

Getting the first win is very important. I think that takes a lot of pressure off going forward.

Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth: Vladimir Putin is much more of a leader than President Obama.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.