The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.