Never respect men merely for their riches but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height but for its use.

Mankind is like dogs not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring my grounding the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

If God existed and if He cared for humankind He would never have given us religion.

Nevertheless there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience no matter what religion or color of their skin or situation in life.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

When law and duty are one united by religion you never become fully conscious fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.