Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

And life is what we make it.Always has been, always will be.

Before you blame others for their wrongdoings, make sure you've achieved something worthwhile in the society or in someone's life.

When you ask, feel and believe- you receive. You hold everything in your consciousness. There is an unlimited supply of ideas waiting for you to tap into and to bring forth.

Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.