Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

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.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

The rich are always afraid.