All you can take with you is that which you've given away.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

I want to do something big, something important.

I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

It's difficult to become someone you don't know at all. It's difficult, indeed, to become yourself.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Some people are monogamous from the get-go while other date as many people as possible until you have "that conversation." Have the conversation at the start so that everyone is clear.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Everybody's not always open to everything. People have biased feelings about certain things, especially in the hip-hop world. The hip-hop world hates homosexuality.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.