How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."

The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.

I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.

Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.