I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there and it will last forever.

To be successful in life what you need is education not literacy and degrees.

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education healthcare and retirement.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

The hoary joke in the literary world based on 'Dreams From My Father ' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama he could have made it as a writer.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job but something which involves desires dreams and fantasy.