If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

You can't order me away, you pissant human--" "I just did." Kas swept past him...

Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

One lives everything down in time.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.