Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Think about yourself because no one has time to think about you. Everyone is busy thinking about themselves.

I am filled time and againwith a heart-aching wonder when I thinkof the fireand frost of memoriesof the everlastingnessof lovethe solace of familyand the power of prayer.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

Never once did I think you were less than a good person.

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen.

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.