All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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.

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.

I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.