To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.