There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

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.

Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

I never make conscious decisions.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.