Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

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

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

Zen mind is not Zen mind. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind.

God has no religion.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Our God is a forgiving God.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.