The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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.

I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout any song.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

Never confuse motions with action.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Television is where I cut my teeth.

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.