A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
Stanislav Grof

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Barbara Walters

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Thurston Moore

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Uma Thurman

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.
Koo Stark

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
Herbie Hancock

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Jet Li

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
Duncan Sheik

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
Tina Turner

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.
Kenneth Rexroth

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.
Herbie Hancock

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.
Jamie Muir

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
Matthew Sweet

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
Richard Gere

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.
Sandra Cisneros