The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

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.

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.

Basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.

In the end, we are our choices.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.