Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
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
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
-Will Rogers
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; in states and in the lands of the potentates; in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
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