And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

We are capable of learning any art.

I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers!

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Use the light to return to clarity.

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.