India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

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.

Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes.Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones.Let us sing the music of forgiveness, the melody of love.

For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Love is lovelier the 7th time around.

I like stylish men although I'm someone who sees a man who's not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I'm a typical Jewish woman like that.

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

Clone ourselves through teaching others.

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.