Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

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.

...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.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

The only love originates from the light in the soul.

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle