The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

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 the world stands in between a man and the woman he loves, he will set out to conquer it.

A friend cannot be ownedThat is plain to seeFriendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

Steve Bannon is a brilliant tactician.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.