Happy are those who expect nothing

When it comes to broken trust, women are the master masons, building barriers that not even love can breach. But mothers…they are the architects.

Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

Since I started playing, really, since I was like three. I imagined myself famous but the vision was blurry, I guess. What you see on TV isn't a realistic picture.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.