"... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy."

“And living in Australia I am relatively well off.”

“In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

“The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.”

“Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.”

“Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.”

“There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.”

“Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.”

“My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.”