Autumn arrives in the early morning.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Cling to the good.

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.