There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will be to treat others with respect kindness and generosity.

When you practice gratefulness there is a sense of respect toward others.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the poet. To know to kill to create.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

So I remember both medicine because I frequently sick particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion if there is one and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

I travel around the world experiencing every language every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile because their lives are so difficult.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

If there is a God atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Art and Religion are then two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art there can be moments of God.