Prashanth Narayan

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

You can recognize truth by beauty and simplicity.

to be at our most efficient we need to be able to switch backwards and forwards between the two modes.

And what started here will indeed have changed the world — for the better.

Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.

When I’m 80 and reflecting back, I want to have minimized the number of regrets that I have in my life. And most of our regrets are acts of omission—the things we didn’t try, the paths untraveled. Those are the things that haunt us.

Time is very precious to me.

It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.