“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.

Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.

By my love and my hope I beseech you – do not forsake hero in your soul!

When you are in doubt abstain.

He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed,He, indeed, is Thy most valued helper, O Mazda Ahura!

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

So maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I’m interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.

You cannot always run at your best.

The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I’ll be satisfied.

Those who stay will be champions

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.