"A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

"I believe in prayer and in strong belief"

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult"

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"