When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land.

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.