He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.

I want to be the best I can be no matter what the circumstances. That’s how I was raised.