...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....

when you’re the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they’ve let you go.

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while.

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we’re on the right track.

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.