[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.

Seeing the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) in everyone is itself an intent of friendship towards the entire world.

Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms

Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.