You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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.

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business

(She) didn't believe in resilience. She believed in imagination.

No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.