Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

your brain is wider than the sky

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.