Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

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.

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

Light and air — what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.

Aston Villa have literally metaphorically had their pants pulled down

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.