When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

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.

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.