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.

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.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe we have the ability power to give and receive it.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.