Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.