There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.

Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to.

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.

A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

I was a gymnast for twelve or thirteen years. Then I got into surfing and now I paddle board and hike and do whatever I can. I think it's my love of the outdoors.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.