"We see what we want to see, and believe what we want to believe."

I don’t like to be told what to do.

The darker the past, the brighter the future.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.

The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time, you are an honored guest. The third time you become family.