The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

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.

Despair is criminal.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

If you consider it valuable, it will grow valuable.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.