I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.