She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)

We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).