I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.