The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. 

I don't like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. 

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.