... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

be waryof the boys whoonly ever tellhalf-thruthsbecause theywill only ever be half in lovewith you-slay those dragons

When we learn to use the power of love then the world will see the peace.

...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.