The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Self-loathing is man’s effort to sweep the moon of footprints.

The heart of a yogi should always bear good-will and thoughts that benefit others.

I count him lost who is lost to shame.

When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion