We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is being used by your subconscious mind.

The greatest blessing is the gift of life.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.