I've been thanking God for you being there. For you risking your life for Dove. I'll never forget it, Tyler. I'll never forget you...." "Truth is, Lily, I'll never forget you either.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves