‘This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.'
HH the Dalai Lama

'Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte (stated near the end of his life)
 

'Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.'
Voice of the Master. Kahlil Gibran

‘Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,
    And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?
    Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
    Who can spread his hours before him, saying, ‘This for God and this for myself; This for my soul and this other for my body”
    All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.
    He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
    The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
    And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
    The freest song comes not through bars and wires.
    And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.

    Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
    Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
    Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
    The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.
    For in reverie you cannot rise about your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
    And take with you all men:
    For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.

    And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.
    Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
    And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the clouds, outstretching His arms in lightning and descending in rain.
    You shall see Him in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.'
The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran 
 

'The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God. It is the one that makes you a better person. Whatever makes you more compassionate, more sensible, more detached, more loving, more humanitarian, more responsible, more ethical. The religion that will do that for you is the best religion.
    I am not interested, my friend, about your religion, or if you are religious or not. What is really important to me is your behaviour in front of your peers, family, work, community and in front of the world. Remember the Universe if the echo of your actions and your thoughts.
    The law of action and reaction is not exclusively for physics. It is also of human relations. If I act with goodness, I will receive goodness. If I act with evil and will get evil.
    What our grandparents told us is the pure truth. We will always have what we desire for others. Being happy is not a matter of destiny, it is a matter of options.
    Take care of your thoughts, because they become words. Take care of your words, because they become actions. Take care care your actions because they will become habits. Take care of your habits because they will form your character. Take care of your character because it will form your destiny and your destiny will be your life.
    There is no religion higher than the truth.'
Dalai Lama