Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

I shouldn't be married.