I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.

I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first

Talk about cheap - on Christmas Eve, my neighbour shoots off three blanks and tells his kids Santa Claus just committed suicide.

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.