He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.