Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Love is the key that opens every heart.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.

Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

New York is the thing that seduced me.

He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.