If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

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.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him.

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.

My heart is with Hillary Clinton.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.