If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry 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.

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.