As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

...reflection can transform something familiar.

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition

You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.