I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

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.

Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

Hell is life drying up.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.