Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

You can't make a record if you ain't got nothin' to say.