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

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.

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.

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.

The battle is not with the human flesh, but the mind.

I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.