No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

Thought creates character.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

So many models have cool boyfriends.

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.