The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

It takes heart to battle great challenges, great faith to be victorious over them.

Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.