All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

People blame their failures on past birth, destiny, surroundings, and rarely to self in the order of their evolved mental state. The converse is rather more true for the successful people.

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

When you touch the moon with beloved eyes, you behold a glimpse of an amazing life.

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.