"You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily."

“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”

“I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.”

“Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.”

Source : Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV, 1995.

“The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.”

“By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.”

“We are always the same age inside.”

Source : "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

“Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.”

“Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.”