"And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first"

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

"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"

"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"

"Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God"

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

"Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account"

"Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle"

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"

"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"