The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

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.

All human experiences, from the feeling of love, to the presence of God emerge from various brain activity.

Initiative + Progress = Success.

Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. “You wanted to kiss me.” “I still do.

Haphazard actions don’t bring results!

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.