A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Imagination is the greatest solitude

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.