In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!