If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

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

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons