I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.

It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.