Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'