"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.