Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

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.

There is no set moment in your life that will define you. Every moment is a chance to change your life for better or worse. Choose to change now.

You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

There's a lot you can do without words.

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.