Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.