I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.