In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.

The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I hate to run. I never, ever run.

I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.