Religion and philosophy philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by philosophy and by religion.

If I don't talk about my religion if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on they're like 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it it becomes 'Oh he's proselytizing.'

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil your religion is worse than useless.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion the other by it.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Rivers ponds lakes and streams - they all have different names but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture you get into a relationship.

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with when you develop a relationship.

I have a great relationship with animals and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world it's hugely different.

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people you have an affinity a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old anyone you meet after that it's different from the people you knew before.

When I was in my 30s I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

If you have parents with a healthy relationship you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

As I grew up I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.