Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

When you are angry—stop, breath, relax, step back, think, and forgive before you react.

Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.