This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice.

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

Some people would say I've made it now.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.