Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

None of These Will Come Easy.

Why do I love writing YA? Because I get a chance to re-live my youth knowing all I know now...

Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don’t know how you usually act.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.

I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Go into the heart of love, and come from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.