the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

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.

It’s a baby. A baby can’t be without a mother.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

Everything is energy. Thought is energy and thoughts are real things.

We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.