People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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.

The value of trust is very much like the value of dignity.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.