In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.