Truth never comes where lust and fame and greed of gain resides.
-Swami Vivekananda
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-George Bernard Shaw
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion overriding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.