Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Do you want to be an expert, or a master salesperson? You can only choose one.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

My best writing has always been in journals.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough