Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Successful people don't have a limit whereas unsuccessful people often draw a line of limit

I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.