America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.