“When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.”

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.

For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.

I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.

Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

The awful realization of our mortality

Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.

Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

That big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

Fear is our boon companion but never our master.