Savour a slow-paced contented life.

A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.

Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.

Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly.

Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.

Friends can create our most cherished memories.

Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart.

Being gentle doesn’t stop us fighting for our dreams.

The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.

Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight.

We have the freedom of choice, to choose what’s right.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

I would rather dance alone under the stars than spend a lifetime hiding behind the moon.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

Too many rocks in the mountains.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.