I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.

Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.

Life is sacred gift.

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.