The writer is the midwife of understanding.

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.

Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

You told me your mother wants grandchildren.”“My mother wants George Clooney to move to the farm too but that ain’t ever going to happen.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

I mean, Rex Tillerson is in the business of exploring and finding oil across the globe.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!