When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

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.

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

God is the world's oldest philosopher

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.