I am an acquired taste.

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?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

some of the best music was composed by Beethovan, but he was deaf, some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton, but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible...

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.