And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.