The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Advertising is legalized lying.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.