The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

Children are mirrors, tape recorders and copy cats. They show us who we REALLY are, repeat EVERYTHING we say and do exactly what we DO. So, smile and be on your best behavior.

Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

A poet must sing for his own people.

I shouldn't have been there. I should never have been born.

It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.