Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Where will wants not, a way opens.

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.