Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping

Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

I believe that you have to withstand whatever problems come your way. You have to make the decisions that are best for you.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.