For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes.

Don't feel so small and condemn yourself. You are the universe, so love and compliment yourself.

For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.

Things do not change we change.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.