To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

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.

What is money for, if not to share with those you love and treasure?

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

It's much easier to make jokes about not having kids.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.