“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.”

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

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.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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?

I don’t like talking. It’s how I’m built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don’t mind talking or smiling, it’s just I don’t do it very much. I haven’t got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

I really don’t watch what I eat. It’s not like you have #‎ Christmas every day!

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.

It’s modern-day slavery.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I’m always leaving in two days again.