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With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

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.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.