We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.