Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.