I won't get into the antics of what went on then.

Tony Abbott would do anything but sell his arse

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

The National Party is a dying party.

Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

We don't think. We think we think.

The list below begins to illustrate how different personalities can be assigned to different vocal qualities . . .•

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."