All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

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

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.