I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. When asked if he was a Hindu.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival. 27 December 1987