Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

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.

Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

I never fear death... for me it's only a new beginning.

When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average!

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Loyalty is my biggest thing.

I'm in a glass case of emotion