Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then the love of GOD is the apex of it!

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.