Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.