The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

Yeah, I said the universe. Call it Fate or The Force or whatever you want. Everything is everything. It's all part of one big system. I like to think of it as the universe.

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.

A stealthy ninja monkey she was not.

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.