Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

The more we sweat, the less we bleed.

Freedom is not for the timid.

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.