If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.

Love is who we are without our stories.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

Luck is created by the prepared.

Who can wrestle against Sleep? - Yet is that giant very gentleness.

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.