Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.