A photograph is a souvenir of life!

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

You have to know that your real home is within.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.