A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

You don't endorse error, you allow it.

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

My life really began when I married my husband.

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.