"I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now."

“Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff.”

“When you come from a family of ten children you learn very early on in life to stand up for yourself and hold your ground regarding the things you're passionate about.”

“Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.”

“The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.”

“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”

Source : Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

“I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.”