I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.

I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.

Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.