Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.

The Government gets a piece of totem legislation through the House of Representatives and immediately turns the victory into an extraordinary case of excessive executive secrecy. In partnership with Greens Leader Bob Brown, the Government decided it was perfect reasonable to deny Parliament, its own MPs and the general public details of how it would [...]