Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

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.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self