In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.