... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

The secret of life is to have no fear.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.