Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
-George Carlin
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
-Ray Bradbury
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-Jules Renard