Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

No matter the nationality no matter the religion no matter the ethnic background America brings out the best in people.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven the best to hell.

Toleration is the best religion.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion beauty is lifted from its face as a mask and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love but for pleasure it degrades the seeker.

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

But I do think that we approach music in of itself with a religious attitude.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church everyone present knows what is going to happen that night but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

There must be something solemn serious and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad it must not grin or snicker if sad it must not scream or curse.

In the world of language or in other words in the world of art and liberal education religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual religion sport art and science awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature it surpasses it.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

All humanity is passion without passion religion history novels art would be ineffectual.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

We want to answer this classical question who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art or whatever we do including science or religion tried to answer that question.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains people as to how they shall think.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them needs religion.