Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 911 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. . . It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with an eye on the wishes of our 'coalition partners. ' It has been fought to assuage the Arab 'street. ' It has been fought to satisfy the diplomats rather than the generals. . . why have we not loosed the B-52s and the B-2s to carpet-bomb Taliban positions? And why are we giving the Taliban sanctuary in their cities? We could drop leaflets giving civilians 48 hours to evacuate, after which the cities become legitimate military targets.