India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

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

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.