A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.

The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.

If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.

I can convert anyone.

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.

I'm a great lover of human beings.

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

Doubt you’d find anyone as dashingly charming as me

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to the exclusion of everything else.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Accident is veiled necessity.

It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is.