The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

Merely to exist is not enough.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.