A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

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.

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

In fight, by 'knowing what to do next', element of surprise can be overcomed.

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.