Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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 true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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.

The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.