Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations, puja and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage: the merits of all these can be obtained by enshrining Lord within your heart for a fraction of a second.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
-Joseph O'connor
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez