To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

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.

Lift yourself to great heights.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

I travel as much as I can and meet people.

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

What are the important problems of your field?

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.