"Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard."

“Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.”

“Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character”

“I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.”

“Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.”

Source : Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press

“The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.”

“As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.”

“Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get the help and support they need. It's such a common problem, and it doesn't need to be. All you have to do is talk about it and break the silence.”

“It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!”