One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

Everything is music for the born musician.