By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!

One and all do mistakes, that doesn’t mean they all are sinner

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.