"I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust."

“God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.”

“Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.”

“You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.”

“Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.”

“The U.S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption in oil would not only damage the U.S. economy; it would undercut American military supremacy.”

Source : "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.160, Wendy Lamb Books

“Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.”

“How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.”

Source : "Midnight Oil". Book by V. S. Pritchett, Vol. 2, Ch. 10, 1971.