If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

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

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

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.