Education made us what we are.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Always be in control, do not allow money to possess your heart which should belong to God

Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is one of my portraits.