To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

It is better to be a true disciple than a false follower.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.