Francis Bacon

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

All beings are by nature Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

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.

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

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

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

Right now, it’s like this.

God has no religion.

God is a loving god.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.