Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.