If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life. ~ H.H. the Dalai Lama

Contrary to popular opinion, the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'fact'.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ~ Dean Koontz

"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect."~ Mahatma Gandhi

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. ~ Robert Heinlein

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ~ H.H. the Dalai Lama

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha

I believe that the practice of compassion and love - a genuine sense of brotherhood and sisterhood - is the universal religion. It does not matter whether you are Buddhist, Christian, Muslim or Hindu, or whether you practice religion at all. What matters is your feeling of oneness with humankind." ~ H.H. the Dalai Lama

"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."- Mohammed

 Don't worry that your children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumor by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. " ~ Buddha

"If you judge people, you have not time to love them." - Mother Teresa

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." ~ Stephen Henry Roberts