You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

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 you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

If I had a wish, I would turn you to a pair of shoes to keep you under my feet and you get an opportunity to be under the bed too.

She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.

I always say, "When you know it's right, everything will fall into place."

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.