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

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.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

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.

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Media is so influenceable, yet so influent. Whoever controls the media controls the society, and its opinion.

If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.

You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

A free state is a corporate state.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.