The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

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.

Calm is not a place where there is no noise or activity. It is the ability to be in the midst of these, yet experiencing peace within.

If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!

If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.

Life happens not to me but for me

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.