[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

You can only be your brother's keeper if he allows you

We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life.

Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.