"Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship."

“The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.”

“My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in my music. Nature was my inspiration even in NYC, because I needed that balance - I would travel out to nature. I loved the big city, I loved the energy, but I needed the balance.”

Source : "Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed". Interview with Danny Riley, thequietus.com. September 13, 2016.

“Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.”

“Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.”

“I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life”

“Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.”

Source : Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org

“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.”

Source : "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

“Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.”