I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.

Jack McDevitt

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

Todd Phillips

I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all.

Richard Roxburgh

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.

Selma James

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

Night is the mother of counsels.

George Herbert

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

John Howard