Vishnu Onteddu

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“When the twins asked what cuff-links were for—“To link cuffs together,” Ammu told them—they were thrilled by this morsel of logic in what had so far seemed an illogical language. Cuff+link = cuff-link. This, to them, rivaled the precision of logic and mathematics. Cuff-links gave them an inordinate (if exaggerated) satisfaction, and a real affection for the English language.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.”
― Will Durant

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved