If you have no obstacles in your own mind, then outer obstacles will not hinder you or cause you worry.

When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge