Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

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

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

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

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.

Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

If someone says no, you're talking to the wrong person.

I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.