One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Defence is our best attack.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.Murder in the Dog Park

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.

Ask yourself - Where do I want to be one year from today? Personal growth is a choice.

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.