The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Prayer is a turning to God.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
