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.

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.

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.

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 lover of human beings.

Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

Those who don't set goals in life end up being controlled by those who do.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208