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.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Where there is love there is life.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

God does not play dice.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.