The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

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.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.