Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to!

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.