The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.