The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

No concept is a carrier of life.

I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent