Hugh Mackay

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

There's always a common attraction to universal needs of love and a feeling of worthiness.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.