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

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.

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 love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

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.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

The friend that you’re with makes you the friend that you are!

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.