Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Stephen King

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Mark Twain

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller

Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!

Jasmine Jean

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Theresa May

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

George Bernard Shaw

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Kirsten Zambucka