For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolibar tree, And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil, You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

Replace dabbling with laser-beamfocus on something important.

Let's live a lie for today.You’ll spin talesand pretend to love me.And I'll smile

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.

We understand nature by resisting it.

The way is an ill neighbour.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.