I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.