“No matter how educated or wealthy you are, if you don’t have peace of mind, you won’t be happy.”
“If it were between countries, we’d call it war; if it were a disease, we’d call it an epidemic; if were an oil spill, we’d call it a disaster; but it’s happening to thousands of Australian women – and it’s just a domestic.”
“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”
“The day will come when men will recognise women as their peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
“A snail could crawl the entire length of the Great Wall of China in 212 years, just slightly longer than the 200 years it will take for women to be equally represented in Parliament.”
“This capacity to shape a vision of what can be achieved, and to share the vision with others so that it becomes their own, is one of the most important elements of leadership.”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
“The one who is outside the door has already a good part of their journey behind them.”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
