Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.

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.

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

All art critics are useless or harmful.