The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

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.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.

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

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.