I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

Death is very, very terminal.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame, ” she said.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.

No one knows what they can do until they try.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.