What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

Always let people see a reflection of God in you

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.