Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.