I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.