We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.