Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

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

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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 would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

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.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.