The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

Prayer, God’s glory.

We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.