#Tolerance

"I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in."

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."

"This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism."

"No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others."

"When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others."

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."

"As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love."

"In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong."

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."

"I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find"

"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."

"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

"Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35"

"Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn."

"For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours."