Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.

I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.