People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

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.

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'.

Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

I come straight from hell, Cell 23

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Even the Supreme Court, back when it used to makes sense, the Supreme Court has never ruled that a baby born to illegal aliens in the US is automatically a citizen.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.