"When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe"

"Music is my religion"

"Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth"

"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it"

"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there"

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion"

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart"

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins"