He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself.

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

Though Abdul had been as afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did not disturb him. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead.

Dream without fear love without limits.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ... it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in mind with grave consideration.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.