Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.