If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.