There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.