A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

Thought creates character.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

As humans, it is in our nature to focus on picking ourselves up while the whole world falls apart.

Holding a grudge is a fatal flaw.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

The child is the father of man.