Lalitha

“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two, but three. Or maybe four. (But by no means five.) Yes, a parent should share his hesitations and then take three or four steps back, so that the child can make a decision by herself—even when that decision may lead to disappointment.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“If some busybody were to cross-examine me on the chapters already written, he could probably shed much more light on them, and if it were a hostile critic’s cross-examination, he might even flatter himself for having shown up [make the world laugh by revealing] the hollowness of many of my pretensions.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“None was to touch any one’s property on the way. They were to bear it patiently if any official or non-official European met them and abused or even flogged them. They were to allow themselves to be arrested if the police offered to arrest them.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

“and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.”
― Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence