Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. 

The new has come and now the old retires. And so the past becomes a mountain cell. Where lone apart old hermit memories dwell.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have a place. Amid the tumult of reverberant strife.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.  

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.