Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!