Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

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

God has no religion.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

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.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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 live as one.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.