The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

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.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

My swag is off the charts.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

I wonder who is going to finish second.