I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

Soldiers falling fastBattle of white and scarletBlossoms on the ground

Intuition comes from the heart and soul - not the mind.

It is Halloween, ” he explains coyly. “I wanted to come out as something beautiful. None of this witch stuff for me. My God, don’t we spend our whole life as witches?

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Also, whenever you have direct speech, and I don't quite know why, but it always gets better in English. Dialogue, the flow of dialogue, English just has a better way with it.

Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Well, I have chlamydia. Thanks for this, Mom. Good class.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.