We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
