I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I don’t like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don’t like factory farming. I’m not an advocate for the meat industry.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I’ve said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I’m against ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and that we’re going to end this policy.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.