Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.