High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

At all times we are either in fear or we are in love. We are either open or we are closed. Expansive or contracted.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.