We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.