In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Faith in God gives faith in self.

If you put your best foot forward and if you overcome your fears, you will surely be able to attain the heights of success

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

Divine love always has been, and always will be, the answer that you seek.

I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my very best with it and let it go.

Even in our darkest hour we must remember; never dispair.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.