Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.