If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .