Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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.

It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.