Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

No man was born empty.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.