Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.