Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

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.

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!

I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Habit had made the custom.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.