The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Fear is the greatest prison.Hope is the greatest freedom.

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear on good days…

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I have no natural charisma or personality, really.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.