If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.