The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

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.

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.