Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.