The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

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?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

When you think of someone with love, your heart dances with joy.

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

I wake up in the morning with a list of problems, and I go solve them.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.