To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people 'find it.'

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.