One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.