A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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 sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

One dies the way he lives.

Be batty, be traditional, and be proud.

You must expect to make enemies.""I never expect to make anything else, " he said.

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

I've got so many blessings in my life.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.