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.

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.

I can convert anyone.

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.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.

Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.