If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

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 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.

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.

Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.Irys made a strangled sound and the candle burned. “Are you directing your magic to the candle?”“Yes. W

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.