All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

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.

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions

God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

What you learn after you are 40 is that it is just about plugging up holes in the boat. You just hope you have enough corks to plug enough of the holes.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.