Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

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.

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

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.

Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.

all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.

When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?