Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

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.

Relationships take work. It isn’t true love if things go smoothly.

No matter what, if you have the strength of life, it is enough to be thankful.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.