Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

The way I talk is bizarre.