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.

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

... 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.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.