The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

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.

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

What we don't know can't hurt us.

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.