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

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

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