Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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.

... But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

You’ve seen the movies. Bad guy always comes back.

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

In any form of attack it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.