Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

Be greatly aware of the present.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.