A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

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.

...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...

Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

We live in the least ugly time in history.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.