We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

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.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.