People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

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.

You work hard and sweat it out only when doing something for which you were not born

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

High valuations entail high risks.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are.

The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.