I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re dong, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.