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

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

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.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power

If you ignore the red flags, embrace the heartache to come.

In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Emphasising what's in your control allows you to adopt an attitude of equanimity toward luck. You've done what you can, and from there you have to live with the results - good or bad