I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

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.

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

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.

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

I became a passionate seeker of childbirth knowledge.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18 and then I sort of straightened out.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.