Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

Our God is a forgiving God.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.