It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

I think that people are usually more comfortable working with and entrusting money to those who seem most like them.

I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too soon.

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.