Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

The stronger the family, stronger the society.

There is no shame in ignorance and failing

Having our old Gran in the car was like having a cranky 'Tassie Tiger' sitting in the back. You never knew when she might jump forward and bite you on the back of your neck.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

If your thighs look like the hood of a white Toyota minivan after a hailstorm, you aren't juicy.

Do I take the Gospel message of reconciliation and love into the places where I live and work?