"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"

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

"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"

"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"

"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes"

"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech"

"Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this"

"Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet"