'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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 so touching to see so much regret in the eyes of people when they say. 'I have no regrets in life

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven.

Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

I want to fall in love with the internet, but I haven't fallen in love with it yet, because I still have not given love on the internet.