Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

As Puppets are to Men, and Babies to Children, so is Man’s Workmanship to God’s: We are the Picture, he the Reality.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

Music causes us to think eloquently.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.