Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens

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?

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.