We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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.

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

I would rather dance alone under the stars than spend a lifetime hiding behind the moon.

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.