Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.