I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

When the time is yours, the future is waiting, The person you become, and the people you're creating.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

The extreme always makes an impression.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

The calla lilies are in bloom again.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.