Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.

Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.

Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind. An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.I was fine till I met you, he says.

You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

One picture is worth 1, 000 denials.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

You also want people who are maniacally determined and that is slightly different than having a risk tolerant attitude.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.