When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

Bursar?""Yes, Archchancellor?""You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?""Me? No, Archchancellor.""Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.