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

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

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

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

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

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

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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

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

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

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.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

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

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Devotion is a social force.