What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

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.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.

I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.