The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

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.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

Great literature makes a great life.

Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

Do you ever have one of those weeks where you know nothings gonna go right?

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.