In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …

Be an example

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

It is better to learn two important lessons in life than a thousand when you are about to die.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.