Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.