We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Driving a stolen plane will be nothing compared to the ride with a fired-up Scot.

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.

It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see...

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

The body is a vehicle for the mind, and that vehicle is how you travel through space.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.