History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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.

True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.

So many people sabotagetheir own chances for happiness—don’t be one of them.

Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.