A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression thought he could be a movie star. So go figure you know?

Scholarship was one thing drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read let alone make notes on hundreds and hundreds of very very very boring books.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others they have a hundred when alone.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves 'where do I want to be today where do I want to be tomorrow and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.