The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership

Children are like water

I want you to stay. I need you to go.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.