Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother’s cookbook, and her father’s checkbook.

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.

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

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.

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

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

The ordinary mind is the way.