Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.

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.

Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.

Look at this charming donkey!

The worst illness is to live life that others want you to live and best medicine to this illness is "Awareness of Death

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.