There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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.

Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!