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.

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'.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

It's going to happen whether you like it or not, ” he said quietly.The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”“Change, ” Rich said. “It's inevitable.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.