It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.