Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.