"This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?"

“The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.”

“To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.”

“When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!”

Source : Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

“There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.”

“Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.”

“I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.”

“Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

“There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.”