When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.