Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness

I'd like to have younger people around me and that I'll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.

I'm an old-fashioned guy.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

I am not going to tell people what I don't believe.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.