Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

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.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.