"Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty."

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present."

"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."

"I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school."

"One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan."