Talbot Mundy

“I, myself, searched for Sham-bha-la for eleven years. I am perhaps a little wiser than I was, but it may be I…

— Talbot Mundy

“You may be sure of this, my son: that no decision you may take, nor any course, will meet with universal favor.…

— Talbot Mundy

“Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are nine who turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice…

— Talbot Mundy

“There be many gurus, and some good ones whom it is no great task to differentiate, seeing that those who make the…

— Talbot Mundy

“I spoke to you all of the Wheel,” he said quietly. “The Wheel turns and unless we are alert an opportunity is…

— Talbot Mundy

“If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death…

— Talbot Mundy

“And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is not a necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high…

— Talbot Mundy

“I am a lama," said the man in yellow. "It is lamas who identify incarnate Buddhas. If I say the Lord Chenresi…

— Talbot Mundy

“Teach a child arithmetic," he said at last, "and he can use it to cheat with, can't he? Teach a man the…

— Talbot Mundy

“For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who…

— Talbot Mundy

“Fear is an ugly weapon, sahib, whose hilt is more dangerous than its blade.”

— Talbot Mundy

“Consider this, my son: this earth-life is a little time, of which a third is spent asleep. What went before it, and…

— Talbot Mundy

“Good women don't reform bad men, they only irritate them.”

— Talbot Mundy

“Oh, would that I had died the way the Sikh did! I can not go forward. I shall not submit to being…

— Talbot Mundy

“Silence is the only safe answer to Silence.”

— Talbot Mundy

“Some of them will welcome me as small boys do a teacher, telling me the little secrets better to conceal the big…

— Talbot Mundy

“They're hypnotists. They're incredibly expert psychologists. And they're just as keen on getting control of the whole world as, for instance, the…

— Talbot Mundy

“Since dugpas wished to get you out of here, where you were safe, how else should they expel you than by causing…

— Talbot Mundy

“A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens…

— Talbot Mundy

“But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use.”

— Talbot Mundy