There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

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.

Great mercy, great love.

A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.