Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

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.

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

If you're in control, you're not going fast enough.

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?