My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

In the beginning was the myth.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.