Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'Well spoken...

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.

All things are possible if you believe...

It was the kind of mouth that should only be found on angels. Chick angels.

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.