Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

I’m feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.