We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.