Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

God has many names though He is only one Being.

I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from I kind of like it.

If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.