Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Look at our population here. People come from all over the country: urban areas, rural areas, suburban areas. We also have international students here. If you look at the national statistics, and you look at correlation and probability, that means that possibly one in 200 students here could be HIV positive.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.