Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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.

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.