The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

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.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

The time to hesitate is through.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.