The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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.

Don’t give up on trying everyday

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?