Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.