For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

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

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

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.