You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

You'll never grab the wonderful with your feet on the ground.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

A consultant is only as good as their last project.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.