"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts."

"Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!"

"I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers."

"Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General."

"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."

"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times."

"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

"What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."

"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."

"For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be."

"How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!"

"Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety."