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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.