Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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.

Whatever you can conceive, you can achieve it.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.