But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

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.

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

Library: The Temple of the Wise!

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.

I don't like talking to celebrities.

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.