To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Lao Tzu
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
-Wilson Mizner
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
-Christopher Paolini
Meditating on the lotus of your heart, in the centre is the untainted, the exquisitely pure, clear and sorrowless, the inconceivable, the unmanifest, of infinite form, blissful, tranquil, immortal, the womb of Brahma.