A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

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.

Computers are like Old Testament gods

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Losing your love hurts more than playing with fire.

I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens