I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

It's absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people and paid family and medical leave.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.