getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

The trick to taking the paper off the crayons...is to just do it. There is no trick.

I believe it went like this—and stop me if I’m wrong, Mousey: ‘Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.

Drop all your botheration to me and be free of worry