"No human being can prevent you from giving. Because no human being controls God’s agenda."

“Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.”

Source : Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber

“Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.”

“Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.”

“Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.”

“I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.”

“For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.”

Source : 'There's nae Luck about the House'

“A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.”

“Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.”