Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

Protect the future by living and fulfilling your God-given dreams.

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

Your thoughts are as free as any bird