The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation