Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

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.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

You will regret the moments you didn't let love in a hell of a lot more than the moments you did.

A conscious understanding of the kind of cloth we wear, each moment of time, makes us be aware of what we must do or what we should never think of doing because of the cloth we wear!

Life is a very important assignment. God will score us at the end.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.