Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

You can't make the world perfect, Daniel, " Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand. "No. I can't, " I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

It is for truth that God created genius.

We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

It pays to trust your instinct.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.