“Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our lifeand happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.”

“Religion is trust, and that trust arose in the beginning from the impressions made on the mind and heart of man by the order and wisdom of nature, and more particularly, by those regularly recurrin...”

“But, for all that, there is a Beyond, and he who has once caught a glance of it, is like a man who has gazed at the sun wherever he looks, everywhere he sees the image of the sun. Speak to him of f...”

“Why do we want to know history? Why does history form a recognized part of our liberal education? Simply because all of us, and every one of us, ought to know how we have come to be what we are, so...”

“The true history of the world must always be the history of the few; and as we measure the Himalaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from the poets of the Veda...”

“To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. I...”

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle th...”

“Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and resentments to be wholly comfortable. I had always had my own way in the marriage about what wed do,...”

“And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped p...”

“If there is no desire for prayer, maybe there is no hunger for God.”

“Pray to God one minute, listen to Him for one hour.”