We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

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.

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Through our soul is our contact with heaven.