Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

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

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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

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

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

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.