If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.