Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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.

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

Strength comes from waiting.

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

[Georges] Simenon could be very brave like that. You never quite know what you're going to get or how the story's going to be told.