Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

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.

Messages that emphasis on you! You!! Promotes selfishness.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.