A policeman's lot is not a happy one

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?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

The gold lamp, Xerxes, is probably the most important thing in your life.

The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.