L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

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.

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

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Kingdom laws do not change

I covet truth

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

Stop focusing on what you cant do, focus on what God can do.

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.

Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.