The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

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.

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.