Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world.

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.

Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them