There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Never forget to leave your footprint of love on the surface of this loving universe.

Lord Almighty your grace is all I need.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The more you understand who you are the less chance your enemies have to bring you down

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.