"Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in."

“If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.”

“We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.”

“I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.”

“It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.”

Source : Brenda Peterson (2000). “Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit”, Newsage Press

“Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.”

“he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.”

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.”

“Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.”

Source : "Dark materials" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.