The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

You must be willing, determined and persistent to achieve your goals

Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place.

It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.

Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.

What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

I feel like there's the 'Hillary standard' and then there's the standard for everybody else.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.