“You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

Your friends are all the dullest dogs.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

We fight too many battles that don’t matter.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.