If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Love doesn’t make you a poet

Living one floor below Paradise.

My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…

Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from not getting up