“Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!”

“I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.”

“It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”

Finding God is never a good reason to end the search

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

"Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield."

"That's when he lifted up a black pistol. I later learned it was a Colt .45. Some of the girls screamed. Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand."

"I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls."

"Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide."

"No night is long enough for us to dream twice."

"He says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part… I have two languages, but I have long forgotten— which is the language of my dreams"

"If there must be a moon, let it be high, a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian, nor claimed by the goddesses all around us."

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

Violence begins with the fork.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." (Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. (Young India 1924-1926)

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?