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.

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.

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 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.

The "C" students run the world.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

I think the environment has become more competitive. That has made Indian industry more concerned with a) its customers, b) the quality of its products, and c) its brand image in the marketplace.