Samuel Butler

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would solve most the worlds problems.