The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.