In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Stick to the key of C, dude. No sharps or flats. More forgiving.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior

In humility, we find our true calling and our greatest honor.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Know not to revere human things too much.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.