It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter