The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.