Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Robert Zend

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Albert Einstein

He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.

Henry David Thoreau

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt

Benjamin Franklin

Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future

Benny Bellamacina

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

John Bunyan

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

A budding fashionista even at four, I would capture the little lizards and latch them, still living, onto my earlobes as earrings. Most girls wouldn't touch them, I thought they completed the outfit.

Mireya Mayor

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

John Green

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...

Charles Dickens

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Asa Don Brown