Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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 only priceless institution that can make you succeed is your mind

Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up...must have started some place." #workhard

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

I love to see people recognized [me on scene].

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Preach it, I say preach it.

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.