“When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.”

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”