The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

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.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

The only way to train for a startup is by starting.

Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.