"The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened." — Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru, born 1879
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." — Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru, born 1879
"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally." — Bill Maher, American comedian, born 1956
"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease." — Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, born 1911
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, born 1911
"Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle." — Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, born 1860
"If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster." — Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer, born 1860
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." — Norman Mailer, American author, born 1923
"There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you." — Norman Mailer, American author, born 192
"God is no white knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or disease. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another." — Nancy Mairs, American author, born 1943
"To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow." — Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina, born 1940
"We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death." — Louis Malle, French-American director, born 1932
"It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth." — Louis Malle, French-American director, born 1932