To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Grover Cleveland

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Voltaire

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

Mark Twain supposedly observed, 'Don't pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.' Of course, today, he probably would have added, 'And hairspray by the gallon'.

Thomas F. Calcagni, Tough Questi

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Louis Farrakhan

We live in the world when we love it.

Rabindranath Tagore

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Sextus Propertius

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it

Tobias Wolff

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Thomas Gray

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Christian Nevell Bovee

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Barack Obama

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Edward Norton