True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

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

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .