Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

You're quite right there," he said. "I have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation.

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.