Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.