The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

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

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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 the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time