To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

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.

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

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.

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

This is unacceptable! We’re English, damn it! We know how to build things where they shouldn't be!" - Governor Dewar

Literally it’s the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don’t want to share your hoogencogles with.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.