Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

So Merlyn sent you to me, " said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you two things -- to dig, and love your home. These are the true end of philosophy.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.