Leo Tolstoy

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Music is the shorthand of emotion

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

Do not learn how to react learn how to respond.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.