"Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse."

"After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful."

"Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength."

"Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage."

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

"It is a radiant truth that to love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach."

"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."