Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

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.

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

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.

I remember you from the woods. Where's your sister?""She's busy. Sinning.

One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.

While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.