Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

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.

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Once you add value, you get paid.

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.