For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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.

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child, and wonder as she lies, a fur ring, curled upon my lap, unstirring -- is it me or Tibbles purring?

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.