A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony...We must add to that harmony Christ like love and righteousness.

You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

If you don’t love it, don’t eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see