The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Count your smiles, not your frowns.

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.