When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

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

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."