Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-Issac Asimov
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston S. Churchill
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore, not by book, nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries comes after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.