Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!

To change and to improve are two different things.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

We cannibalized this bike as much as we could've.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.