We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.