If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

Give peace a chance.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.