When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

The Might God, Eternal Father.

The more you give, the more you have much to keep giving.

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We have forged the type of bonds that only battle brings.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.