It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

There are no names that do not desire fame because we come from God.

It is more beautiful to be kind than right.

No mortal is independent

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

We (sometimes) get so far ahead of (ourselves) instead of living out each day that we forget to really appreciate the moment that we're in - even if it's (temporarily) bad.

When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.