Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

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.

Leadership brings people together.

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.