Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

Am I going with time slowly or is time going with me?

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Lips. There was something strangely, delicately indelicate about the word, like a kiss itself.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

At my best I was as good as anyone.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.