We as a global community are only as strong as our weakest link.
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.
I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
With my child, I hardly watch TV now.
The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.