I was 21 in 1968 so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies in the West anyway would have seemed absurd in 1968.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion if they can find out what it is.

I count religion but a childish toy and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

For that again is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Teach a child what is wise that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful that is religion!

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true.

We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.