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.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.