Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.