There was some justice in his pain

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

For every great success, diligence is desirable from the beginning to the very end.

If the world loves you, question your relationship with Jesus Christ. John 15:18-25.

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation.

Respect toward others can't be imposed.It's a blessing...or learning the hard way.

This is the opposite of the free market.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

After the first death, there is no other.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.