Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Godliness is practical religion.

Take love and kindness with you, wherever you go.

Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.

In Zen we have no gurus.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Sometimes we forget that the top of the wave, the top of the crest is always the bottom, there is no inside without an outside, and there is no up without a down.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.