“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end”

“Treat each person with the bhakti and care as if the success or failure of your own spiritual life depends on this. Do not take into concern how they treat you. The manner in which you treat people is the same way you are treating Guru and Krishna.”

“Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.”

“There are no ends that must be accomplished by any given personality, no ends that must be gained by a personality for the entity.”

“When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.”

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

“.. paint was always [in history of painting] a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..”

“But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.”