Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

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.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Be resolved that honor is heavier than the mountains and death lighter than the feather.

She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.

Your life can never be a complicated journey without you being the one complicating it.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.