A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?

No one is responsible for your inner peace and inner joy except for you.

Death will always be a part of life, and life will always be a part of death

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.