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.

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

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.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction