At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

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.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

If you do not like the past, change it.