A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

If every gay person were to come out only to his/her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days the entire state would discover that we are not the stereotypes generally assumed.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.

Hope will never be silent.

If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.

The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.

The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

I'll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bush campaigns. She's smart, she's focused, she's disciplined - and she's got a great back story. She's got a large family. She's a great mom. And she's a hard worker. I think she's going to be a very effective campaigner.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.