The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

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.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.