Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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 can rise above any situation and achieve your dreams.

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.