What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Darkness tests stars, but they shine.Storms test trees, but they stand.Adversity tests the great, but they soar.

He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

The heart of a man is like deep water

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

The stronger always succeeds.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.