Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Peace is a flame that can only be ignited from within. Harness positive thoughts and illuminate once again.

Asking the right question makes all the difference to your outcome.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.