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

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.

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.

Pray for peace.

One of the most important things you could actually do in life is to create the best of yourself, to create your ideal self.

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.