In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Religion is just mind control.

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.