Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.