Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

The world belongs to those who know how to love but not how to judge.

With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.