Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.

I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !

Be strong and begin again!

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich