Life is given to us; we earn it by giving it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
There are those who spend their lives arguing which is better, the crescent moon or the full. Then there are a few who revel in both for they know The Moon is One.
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.