Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

Death is very, very terminal.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

Invest your time adding value to others

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

I spent all my youth with horses.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.