A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

It’s Adria’s face I see when I think of home.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?