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.

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.

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.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor.

There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.