I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.

I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.