There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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 man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Your heart beats between the palm of my hand.Its need to beOne with meDripsBetween my fingertipsAs I squeeze perfect drops of love into small receptacles to be preserved...For later. ☕️

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.

I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

I never invest in anything that I don't understand.