One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.