I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.