"Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”

“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy and wealth and wise.As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”

“My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.”

“By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.”

“Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.”

“If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.”

“A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."”