"A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is."

“All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.”

“I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.”

“We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the American mind, maybe unique in the world. Once we realized how victimized people of color had been, an honest empathy went out and that's how we got civil rights legislation.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

“The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.”

“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.”

Source : William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

“Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.”

“It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one! And this illusion is not wrong. Future is always good, no matter what happens. It will always give us what we need and what we want in secret. It will always bless us with right gifts. Thus in a deeper sense our belief in the New Year cannot deceive us.”