A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

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.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

Every kid's dream is to play in the Champions League and to win it. To actually have achieved that was an amazing feeling.

Quite honestly, there are days when I don't need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

High expectations don't bother me at all.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.