Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.

Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.