I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.