A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

one ingredient of revenge is always pride.

Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

... the final judge was truth -- immortal.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

And now she began muttering to herself. "God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

There will never be another Sachin Tendulkar.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.