"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."

"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."

"When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly."

"The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change."

"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

"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."

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."