The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

I was raised Jewish my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage and while many of our friends are deeply religious we have chosen to focus on our similarities not our differences. We teach our children compassion charity honesty and the benefits of hard work.

To be frank I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers and quite rightly so.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them respect them and pay them well.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know it's not because I'm a hero.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us but essentially it's like a mirror saying hey can't you see what's here in your own religion what are you stupid?

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

So much about religion has to do with rigid sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Personally I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know my higher self. The Creator.

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

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion no political party and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way ours is merely another way.

Teach a child what is wise that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful that is religion!