If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.