One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Well unfortunately I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper but I also have you know have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect that you earn income responsibility. the vote punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Consult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are who like to be told the worst.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about things that interest me: politics religion ecology and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

To have dominion by religion is to have dominion over men's souls thus over their very spiritual life and to use the Divine things which are in their religion as the means.

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for to take any political stand to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for I actually get a bit offended.

The first act of religion therefore concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

My political ideas and things like that even my religion I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world I'm just an entertainer.

I am an atheist and if an atheist and a pope think the same things there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us whether it's your religion or Santa Claus or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

More than this even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things while seeking only the material.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

I've found a more personal pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri and will be again.

If I don't talk about my religion if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on they're like 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it it becomes 'Oh he's proselytizing.'

If we must not act save on a certainty we ought not to act on religion for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty sea voyages battles!