Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

Source Unknown

A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.

Cordell Hull

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

English Proverb

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

Sade Adu

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusser

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand

Rabindranath Tagore

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Barbara Smith

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

G. K. Chesterton

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.

William Booth

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Rosie Thomas