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

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.

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.

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.

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.

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.