Saint Augustine

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.