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

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

Defence is our best attack.

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

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 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.

At last I found love in literature, songs, movies except my Life. Should i thank myself for discovering the feeling or should I lament that it was never part of my life?

Only you can see true beauty when you focus your beautiful light on things.

The only way to smile at harvest time is to appreciate the invisible fruits in the visible seed. Hungry people are not those who have no seed. They are those who kill seeds!

He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of emotions into each pore as if preparing my heart for tilling.

There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something