I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.