I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

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.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.