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

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.

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

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.

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.

Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now.

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.