If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

Kindness is my prayer. Humanity is my abode.

All people have their different capabilities & magically some of them are limitless & incredible.

Your blindness to my downfall, Has gone too far to be a joke, As I stand ablaze before you, And you tell me you smell smoke.

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

I don't know why I write what I write.

No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.