Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.

...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.