What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.