The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.

Charity opens the heart.

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.