The still sowe eats up all the draffe.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

Human beings are by nature political animals

Men would be angels angels would be gods.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.