When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Religion is just mind control.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

We are not at war against Islam.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Effective action is always unjust.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.