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

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

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

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

The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.