I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

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.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .

We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

I don't think the Republican Party is against women.

One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?