There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

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.

Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

I do not sleep to dream but dream to change the world

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.