Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

The pause is a part of the walk.