The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

I don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and who's got a new lipstick.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.