To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.