My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission you need for that is your own.

Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas. She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar, ' said Anne.

I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you.

Never cry for the same person twice.

Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

If you want to make something happen, you can make it happen. There's always a way if it's what you want.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.