Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

No one could teach you to be you... until now!

I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me.

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?