All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles

But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Worship...is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

I think it's always been an arrangement that had political objectives and goals, which is fine. Get married for whatever reason you want, as far as I'm concerned.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.