And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

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.

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.