The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

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

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

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.