My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

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?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

Don’t worry, be happy! Embrace your weirdness.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.