Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune.

One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny.

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.

Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.

A woman should be mindful that the key to one man's heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.