“Evolution is the Law of Life. Number is the Law of the Universe. Unity is the Law of God.”

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.

If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

Forced idleness evolves into beauty.

I don’t think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.