Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

More is less, less is more

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

I always feel better after a good scream.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.