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“The Nazis would not have turned their backs on the ideas of freedom and Christian love which alone can help man get along, if these ideas had not put up such a miserable show during the last centuries.”
― Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939

“The unbusied heart is free to do all it wants.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Hermitage Among the Clouds: An Historical Novel of Fourteenth Century Vietnam

“But the intensity of my desire to help her had spoilt my intention. That intensity had brought with it a kind of effort that had tired me. Had goodness been part of me I should have helped her with detachment, quite simply because I could not do otherwise—as the sun shines, or as one give a hand to a tumbling child; I should not have vitiated the movement by thinking: "I must succeed I have to succeed!”
― Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939

“Exile seems the fate of independent minds, for nationalism invariably becomes perverted to a tyranny.”
― Zulfikar Ghose, Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers