"Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment."

“New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean”

“la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet”

“To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.”

“In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.”

“The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.”

“Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.”

“All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.”

“God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 31, 2015