I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time.

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Never lower your price, add value.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.