You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.