Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

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.

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.