Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.