Alexander McCall Smith Quote

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girl...

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling