It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...

Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

Only dreams give birth to change.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.