Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!