When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

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.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!

Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.