Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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.

Luke would always remember the day of his drowning

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.