Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.