I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.