A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.