The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
Effective action is always unjust.
That which costs little is less valued.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Freedom is from within.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Give up trying to make me give up
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Young heads take example of the ancient.