Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

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.

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

Jude was good. But he let his fear and jealousy get to him." Daniel shrugged. "'Fear leads toanger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the dark side.

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

you're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.