Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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.

Live a life in the light of love.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.