I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time you can work through anything.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve in my judgment partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

Bad acting comes in many bags various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie reciting their dialogue off an eye chart or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine in that respect.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all and it's really all about them.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character born for religion comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment and spiritual life begins again.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

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.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever least of all to organized religion.

Mysticism poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

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.'

When push comes to shove it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief the spiritual side of life that's going to lift you up no matter what religion you are.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour raw and confrontational.