Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.