I can convert anyone.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.

If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.

I'm a great lover of human beings.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Healthy body image is not something that youre going to learn from fashion magazines.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.