History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

If you persistently knock, door will definitely be opened.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.

To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.