God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.