Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

If you love someone, be their everything.

Rain, hold me in your glassy arms—cover me in wet kisses

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

I had an attachment disorder.

Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."