Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.

Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.