I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, butit was the people that I met, the people who made a difference, that kept me going.That made my world.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

Thank God she wasn’t still hanging out in her underpants.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.