Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.