But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.