The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.