An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

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.

See the moon? It hates us.

In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.