Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

The future will either be green or not at all.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

I'm going to find ways to make you blush, just so I can enjoy the journey.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

Certitude drives people mad.

I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

Learning who you are is what you're here to do.

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here