Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Being neededdoes not entail selfish pride or unhealthy attachment to the worldly esteem of others. Rather, it consists of a natural human hunger to serve our fellow men and women.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

What you possess, you lose.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

God is the same everywhere.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.