Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.

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.

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 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.

I'm a great lover of human beings.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.