Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.