When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

If you have some respect for people as they are you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary profound and alive.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

When state and religion are one religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

The more you get into any religion it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people and how you get out of this 'I me mine' type of thing.