The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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.

You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you.

Kiss thy lips and you will see what thou create.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

There's a path from your HEART to mine.

I have seen one or two psychiatrists. They just sit and nod and doodle.

I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all.