Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

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.

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

Well, it's not like I ignore them on purpose. It's just that no one's voice resounds in my heart.—Asaba Yuuki, (Kimi to Boku, #1)

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

Jesus said that when confronted with Caesar's coin, to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God what is God's.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.