Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

You only want everything you don't have.

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

I would want to get rid of the piracy.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'