Oscar Wilde

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

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.

Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

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 prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.