In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

He is my thunderstorm, the lighting coursing through my veins. I am his hurricane, his colorful bow of rain.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

Bicycles are the new rollerblades, talentless is the new talented, and I'm in hog heaven.