When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.