There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.