Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.

I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Old Woman Nora of Loch LomondTo her three wee Grandaughters one cold night.

Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.

No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word ‘love’ in it.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

... when editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.

I have no patience at all.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'