Ambrose Bierce

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, ‘you are the center of mine.’

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

I think; therefore I am.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.