When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and I have just been born today.

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