“Freelancing is tough. It can be very difficult, in fact. It can wear people down, making them lose sight of what they used to love because they have to do everything else just to get by.”

“And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.”

“Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.”

“Motivation doesn't come from empty words, because words fade over time. If persistance and perservance is what you live then what motivation do you need? Your dreams can turn into goals and your goals can turn into a reality. You are all the motivation you need to succeed.”

“And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about us that cannot love, and that is not called to love, and that is not destined to be turned, conformed, and reduced to pure love. It ...is the priceless deposit left by the burning away of selfishness.”

“There are only two ways to get in and out of an MG Midget sports car – the elegant way or myway. The elegant way is how you see the film stars do it on TV when they arrive at the Oscars. To getin, put your bum inside first and then swivel legs round. Similarly, to exit, swivel legs out, bum last.My way is to get everything but bum in first, leave bum out in the cold for a bit while struggling withother appendages, and then bum can come in. To get out, I simply fall on to the pavement.”

“I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we (men) do. To them, what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel.”