Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.

Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.

I really like visiting military bases.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.